Ini Kamoze is a Jamaican reggae artist who began his career in the early 1980s and rose to prominence in 1994 with the signature song "Here Comes the Hotstepper". He made his first single, "World Affairs", in 1981. Kamoze then released a 12-inch single "Trouble You A Trouble Me"/"General" in 1983. His self-titled debut album was released in 1984 as a six track mini-LP on Island Records. In the album notes he describes himself as a "pencil thin... disentangled... six-foot vegetarian". The album was recorded with and produced by Sly and Robbie, with whom he also toured internationally along with Yellowman and Half Pint.

Queens of the Stone Age (commonly abbreviated QOTSA) is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Palm Desert, California. The band was founded by vocalist and guitarist Josh Homme, who has been the only constant member throughout multiple line-up changes. QOTSA are known for their blues, Krautrock and electronica-influenced style of riff-oriented and rhythmic hard rock music, coupled with Homme's distinct falsetto vocals and unorthodox guitar scales. Foo Fighters frontman and former Nirvana drummer, Dave Grohl, joined in late 2001 to record drums for their third album. Songs for the Deaf was released in August 2002.

Faculdade Mental is a reggae band that was born in Fortaleza-Ceará at the end of 2003, formed by friends who had in common the desire to make a sound that had the same enthusiasm as their ideas. At the beginning of their career the band entered the city scene playing at parties, in bars, until reaching the biggest events. Influenced mainly by Reggae lines, with Roots being the main follow-up, they produced a work with their own sound that brings lyrics in Portuguese dealing with various themes, related to people's daily lives and the facts that often happen in the artistic-cultural context, the songs carry ingredients that are the result of this process of transformation, in the lyrics of the songs, perspectives and experiences that connect with the feeling of words, a network of relationships between reality and art, because one of the band's hallmarks is to transform into music what makes us understand what we are. Self-titled album was released in 2012.

Rita was born in Santiago de Cuba, to Leroy Anderson and Cynthia "Beda" Jarrett, her parents moved to Kingston, Jamaica, when she was three months old. The Soulettes released recordings including rocksteady tunes such as "Time for Everything", "Turn Turn Turn" (released in 1966, written by folk singer Pete Seeger) and "A Deh Pon Dem". "Friends and Lovers", "One More Chance" and "That Ain't Right" (featuring harmony vocals by the Wailers), as well as a duet by Rita and Bunny Wailer, "Bless You" were issued years later on the Lovers and Friends album. After those recordings for the Studio One (record label) coached by Bob, Rita married Bob Marley around February 1966, just before her husband moved to Wilmington, Delaware for a few months to make a living working at the Dupont Hotel there. Bob was replaced by her cousin Constantine "Vision" Walker, who recorded a few songs as a member of The Wailers during this period, with Rita providing harmonies. As Bunny was jailed in 1968 for cannabis possession, Rita joined the Wailers, replacing Bunny for a few months. It is at that time that The Wailers met U.S. singer Johnny Nash, who produced a series of Wailers rocksteady recordings. "Who feels it, knows it" was released in 1981